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How popular are Arduinos nowadays? I've used them years ago and they were great, they taught me about how to program and use the ATMegas and generally how to pr
by qwertox 4y ago
How popular are Arduinos nowadays? I've used them years ago and they were great, they taught me about how to program and use the ATMegas and generally how to program close to hardware.
But then the Raspberry Pis came along and showed me how useful more processing power is, and for the microcontroller stuff the ESP8266 and then the ESP32 showed me that having WiFi directly on the MCU is so much better than just an Arduino, for which I used to buy really long cables. There was a time when I then paired Arduinos with ESP8266 in order to integrate them into the network, but since the ESP32 I've never looked back.
And yet I see new Arduinos being offered and just wonder who is buying them nowadays. Since I haven't informed myself for years on them, maybe I'm really missing out on something?
- kennywinker 4y agoDepends on what you're building. Raspberry Pi's are hard to obtain, much more expensive, overkill for tons of tasks, and involve learning or already knowing a bunch of linux / sysadmin knowledge. In my experience, arduinos get picked over ESP32s mostly because someone's already done what you want with an arduino so you can leverage existing code/projects. Not every project needs wifi, or 240mhz, or 32bits. And in those cases, the beaten path is the best choice. That said, yeah, esp32 gets picked a lot even when the wifi isn't needed, because it's starting to be the beaten path.